This image provided by the Ministry of Defence shows the iceberg, known as A23a, on November 25, , off the coast of Antarctica. A person tries to hose down embers from the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, earlier this month.
Hurricane-force winds helped the deadly wildfires spread across the region, alongside impacts from climate change. Gianluca Grimalda, a senior climate researcher at the Kiel Institute in Germany, refused to travel by air which would have resulted in 90 per cent more carbon emissions. A family cries as they discover their Altadena home was scorched by the Eaton Fire on Thursday.
Several residents like them are now returning to find their homes were destroyed by the flames. Wildfires are currently ripping through Los Angeles and the surrounding areas — it is the type of event made worse by the climate crisis.
Film director Jim Jarmusch has had it with politicians blaming the Los Angeles firestorm on everything but the most obvious. While the displays are often stunning to behold, they can degrade air quality and cause other harms to the environment. A hand holds tiny plastic particles, that are known as microplastics and nanoplastics. Plastic pollution has permeated the air and water, as well as the human body.
But the extent of that pollution and its impacts are still being uncovered. The reality is complicated. A woman holds her baby in their house after flash floods devastated villages in Baghlan, Afghanistan, on 17 May Meltwater rivers flowing across the Greenland ice sheet, which, combined with Antarctic meltwater and thermal expansion, accounts for the bulk of observed global mean rise in sea levels.
